Michaela Emch
Michaela is a communication and marketing specialist, translator, cultural mediator, biomimicry practitioner, safari guide, keen naturalist, and biology enthusiast. She is looking for links where people have not yet connected the dots. Her Masters in International Relations, and the capacity for abstraction gained from her MBA in Aviation Management, help her handle the multicultural and interdisciplinary impact of communication across diverse fields of application.
Michaela Emch
Founder at Eclosions; Biomimicry Switzerland; Systems Innovation Hub: Geneva
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Shaun co-founded Complexity Weekend to help empower teams to learn Complexity by doing while working to solve the world's toughest problems together. At Microsoft, Shaun leads a team of full-stack (Python/Scala) data scientists and engineers, which has developed access management scoring and anomaly detection systems to enforce the Principle of Least Privilege throughout data centers worldwide. His personal research interests involve combining Complexity Science with Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics axioms to peek at fundamental properties of emergent phenomena.
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft; Co-Founder at Research Mentors; Co-Founder at Complexity Weekend
Alexandra Mikhailova
Alexandra is a PhD student in neuroscience, studying how immune molecules regulate the proper establishment of connections in the brain. She is interested in studying and applying the emergent properties of collaborative art, questions and narrative information management.
Alexandra Mikhailova
PhD Candidate at UC Davis (Neuroscience Program)
Sudebi Thakurata
Sudebi is a meta-facilitator, futurist, educator, and a designer of learning, narratives, and regenerative leadership. She designs experiences, engagement, and environment that allow people to think, have dialogue, make their thinking and interaction visible, and enable them to design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and media. Sudebi has co-founded a design collective, Depicentre, and started a unique pedagogy-, art-, and design-led trans-local initiative, “The Archival City - a site of learning”.
Sudebi Thakurata
Associate Dean at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Co-Founder at Depicentre Consulting
Probal Banerjee
Probal is the co-founder and CEO of the design-led collective, Depicentre Consulting. He works on the interfaces of business, learning, design, analytics, innovation, and storytelling. With leadership experience across seven countries strengthening his ability to manage cross-cultural and cross-functional virtual teams in complex matrix organisations, he has a passion for driving content- and culture- driven organisations making economic, social, ecological, and educational impact. He has been able to design effective products, services, and solutions, serving customers and building successful coalitions.
Probal Banerjee
Co-Founder and CEO at Depicentre Consulting
Carolina Carvalho
Lead ecologist and data scientist at African Data Technologies. Resident ecologist and permaculture designer at Kumano Shindo GIA. Accelerating our transition to a regenerative future as Core Steward at the Global Regeneration CoLab (GRC). Co-founder at System of Systems Thinkers. Inter-networkweaving a bit all over the place.
Carolina Carvalho
Lead Ecologist at African Data Technologies
Naho Iguchi
As an ecological artist, Naho authors a new urban design methodology, “Give Space,” in order to give back more space and return habitats to other-than-human beings in a beyond-anthropocentric way.
Naho Iguchi
Founder at Give Space Urban Design
Tim Lipp
As a sociolinguistic researcher in remote communities, Tim traveled back in time to the environment our brains are mostly evolved for. That experience put him on a crusade to rejig social systems to be in line with neuroscience. He’s tried and failed as a missionary, financial auditor, tech CEO, and politician. Now he works with tech companies bringing agent-based modeling into their product management so he can make wealthy and powerful friends and learn some good dance moves for his next political go-round.
Tim Lipp
Failed Politician
Jean F. Queralt
Founder and CEO of The IO Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for Data-Centric Digital Rights. Disturbed by the level of intrusion of technology in the lives of citizens, he took the leap in 2018 of starting TIOF to establish a more solid and targeted direction to address Digital Rights from a technical standards perspective.
Jean F. Queralt
Founder and CEO, The IO Foundation
Kilian Woods
Kilian has facilitated workshops for over 45 schools and universities, including IIT Delhi.
Kilian Woods
Founder at Worldology
Natalie Kastel
I am a researcher (MSc) with a profile in Philosophy, Psychology and Systems Neuroscience. I also have a background and a keen interest in the network dynamics of complex adaptive systems and have spent the last year using a biologically plausible reinforcement learning model (Active Inference under the free energy principle) to model the emergence of cumulative culture from joint communication in an ecology of social virtual agents. I have had the immense privilege of learning the fundamentals of deep FEP-AI from Karl Friston and his students, and am currently pursuing a PhD position which would allow me to expand on this knowledge of deep learning architectures and explore the nature of human and machine intelligence from the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience and complexity.
Natalie Kastel
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Matthew Pirkowski
Matthew works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix’s Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software. Presently, Matthew consults on systems architecture, advises companies within the startup space, and writes about topics related to the evolution of human socioeconomic, technological, and representational systems–in particular the emergence and impact of cryptoeconomic protocols, as outlined in his Crypto Beyond Capitalism essay series. He spends most of his free time restoring land and growing food in Oregon’s woodlands.
Matthew Pirkowski
Independent Contractor / Researcher
Vera Hofmann
I made it the core of my business to search with my clients and collaborators for narratives that do work, narratives that fuel the paradigm shifts towards a world where we all want to live in. I help my clients to strengthen trust, so that we create environments where everyone can find and is willing to share their gifts. Environments where taking responsibility and contributing to a greater good feeds our souls and our businesses. I peak with my clients into possibilities that lie beyond traditional centralized power structures. We together discover and apply planetary wisdom.
Vera Hofmann
Founder at Dare to Imagine
Shirley Haruka Bekins
Shirley explores how systems thinking and complexity science can highlight different questions and insights for complex socioeconomic challenges. Shirley researches homelessness, cities, health, and poverty through systems and complexity science frameworks, with a focus on developing agent-based models and systems maps. Shirley is a special projects consultant at the Human Computation Institute. Shirley also works on civic tech/open source data projects and hackathons at Code for America, One Fact Foundation, and INDIGO at Oxford University. Shirley has 20 years of experience developing mixed use affordable housing and healthcare facilities. Shirley has a Master’s in public administration with urban policy specialization from Columbia University.
Shirley Haruka Bekins
Independent writer/researcher
Selar Henderson
Selar is an advocate and catalyst for transformational shifts to regeneration and a more democratic economy, believing in the generation of social outcomes through the implementation of material accountability and re-direction of capital to achieve social and environmental outcomes, alongside financial return, for long-term community wellbeing.
Selar Henderson
Founder and MD, Future Value Global Founder and Director, Future Value Foundation Director and Member, Coalition of Everyone Director, Family for Every Child (NZ) Advisor, Grass Skirt Project Advisor, LemonTree Fundraising Advisor, Seaworthy Collective
Lipsa Bharati
A thought coalition builder and educator in the space of democratising seemingly esoteric learning- be it on concepts of mathematics or human development or inner transformation- I love making knowledge massy yet effective. A vipassana meditator and sense of self ranges from I, the Me to I am the Universe. Walking the journey of reconciling my scientific understanding of complexity with that of spiritual history we have been bequeathed.
Lipsa Bharati
Work with the Poverty and Human Development Monitoring Agency, Govt of Odisha, India; Alumna of IIT Bhubaneswar, IIM Bangalore, Indian School of Democracy
Josh Fairhead
Web3 change agent with a background in regenerative crypto-economic systems. Currently facilitating the codification of ecological state protocols that foster bottom up transformation via practice based methodologies. Bypassing gatekeepers.
Josh Fairhead
Co-founder @LunarPunkLabs. H3uni Contributor
Mario Yanez
Mario Yanez is dedicated to envisioning and inspiring a transition toward life-sustaining, regenerative human cultures. He has an academic background in finance, information systems and ecology. He has several decades of experience applying systems thinking to developing and funding cutting-edge interventions supportive of a much-needed cultural evolution. As a whole-systems designer, he is working at various scales, implementing regenerative landscapes and transformative ecosocial systems. As a scholar-practitioner, he is researching complexity and pathways toward cultivating wholeness and aliveness in human systems. Mario resides in Portugal, practices globally and is native to the Greater Everglades bioregion.